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APPENDIX B<br />
GROWTH IN ILLNESS SCHEMES<br />
The Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) operates various<br />
illness-related schemes. These schemes are designed to:<br />
● provide income support for people who, because of illness or injury,<br />
are unable to work or are suffering <strong>from</strong> a major disability or require<br />
constant care and attention<br />
● afford compensation to people who are deemed to have suffered a ‘loss<br />
of faculty’ as a result of injury at work or contracting a work-related disease.<br />
Some schemes are designed to cater for short-term illnesses, others for<br />
long-term illnesses or incapacity.<br />
The number of recipients of benefits/allowances <strong>from</strong> these schemes has risen<br />
<strong>from</strong> 100,000 in 1992 to 206,137 in 2003.<br />
The sharp increase in 1995 was due to the transfer of approximately 38,000<br />
recipients of Disabled Person’s Maintenance allowance (DPMA) <strong>from</strong> the<br />
Department of Health to the DSFA, following its transfer the DPMA was<br />
renamed the <strong>Disability</strong> Allowance (DA).<br />
As expected, the trend in expenditure follows the trend in numbers which is<br />
graphically depicted on the page opposite.
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